[Gorthan listens, and a myriad of emotions passes in rapid succession on his face, with no effort, on his part, to hide any of them. Awe, surprise, admiration, respect, horror, thoughtfulness... Such a system of deities strikes him as absurdly foreign, and yet there's a kind of rationality to it that one can easily make sense of.

In other words, this is beautiful to him. And Zulf's excitement only fuels Gorthan's own as he listens.]

How... how fascinating! It really is as if your gods embodied both opposite extremes in order to bring balance into your lives...

I have one more question, however, if you do not mind. You seem to conceive them as extremely... physical, with very definite appearances, so I wonder... how much of a presence do they have in your every day lives? Have they ever appeared to someone who had prayed to them?